Film director Richard Curtis has hinted that Brexit and Donald Trump’s election inspired him to make a Love Actually sequel.

Curtis, whose credits also includes Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, said as things “feel strained” and “complicated” at the moment, it felt like the right time to ask whether “love” was still “all around us”.

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In the interview Curtis said until last Christmas he had not watched Love Actually for ten years.

The new ten-minute “where-are-they-now” special for the charity will see stars such as Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy and and Liam Neeson reprising their roles from the 2003 movie.